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Thread #38573 Message #542663
Posted By: Desert Dancer
05-Sep-01 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Help: All Things Are Quite Silent
Subject: All Things Are Quite Silent
The tune to All Things Are Quite Silent is in the DT here from the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, as collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Ted Baines, Lower Beeding, Sussex, in 1904. This is a very simple (nearly boring) tune, in an AABA form. However, most of the available recordings (Louis Killen, Shirley Collins, Maddy Prior/Steeleye Span) use a slightly different and more complex (more interesting!) tune in the form ABCA (abc below). Anyone have a clue as to the origin of that tune? Bert Lloyd?? UK folk, dig thru your vinyl, if you would.
T:ALL THINGS ARE QUITE SILENT %Tune name Q:1/4=120 %Tempo V:1 % K:C M:3/4 %Meter z4 DE |F3 E D2 |G2 A2 B2 |G2 AG E2 | D4 DE |F2 E2 D2 |(3:2:1A(3:2:1B(3:2:1c d2 B2 |G2 A2 B2 | A4 AA |d2 c2 B2 |c2 B2 A2 |B2 A2 G2 | c3 z AG |F3 E D2 |G2 A2 B2 |G2 AG E2 | D4 z2 |] %End of file (hope this abc works)